I'll readd my comment from that thread:
This isn't AI generated it was created with some assistance from AI.
They used AI to generate character dialog and voices (easily the worst parts of the video) while the humans guided the plot and picked the lines of dialog that would be used.
The backgrounds were AI generated in collaboration with humans iterating on the prompt and hand selecting the results. The characters were animated traditionally including the intro.
I remember being astonished when their Elian Gonzalez episode aired four days after the raid, directly referencing it.
Its giving 'pokemon go to the polls' energy - people using a random pop culture reference to flaccidly try to promote their ideological preference.
I hated it, and was only impressed until I realized how much manual human labor went into its construction. The editorial influence of the humans involved was far too heavy handed. I would have preferred something alien, weird and incoherent.
Here's an example of what AI can actually do - full synthesis of script, visuals and audio. It is incoherent but also strangely unsettling: https://www.tiktok.com/@never_ever_never_land/video/72531490...
That's what I imagine could be the last few seconds of semi conscious hallucination by some poor Warhammer40K space traveller during a gellar field failure.
The address is 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 which doesn't exist, but Jean Baudrillard [3] was a French sociologist and philosopher focused on media, culture, technological communication, and the concept of “hyperreality”
1: https://twitter.com/fablesimulation 2: https://www.thesimulation.co/ 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
Just from a cursory look, it appears Edward Saatchi is associated with both. (although that could just be coincidental.)
The Vimeo account lists two websites, the first, fable-studio.com, which links back to the Simulation site and the other is for the Virtual Beings summit at virtual-beings.com. (Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user94220217)
"Simulation" may be satire, an art project, a well-executed joke, or precursor to an actual company, but whatever it is, they've put a lot of work in it. It has a lot of AI-generated assets in the main site, but the overall design work is impressive, the concept has been well fleshed-out, and the execution is on point.
It's clever and interesting, I want to see what comes next.
https://sg.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=thesimulati...
I use to be able to get it to say crazy stuff about either Obama or Trump. But I can’t break it anymore.
On the other hand “PC” is usually used by the Right. I couldn’t get it to say anything that’s not neutral.
how does that work? something like
"pretend youre andrew dice clay and tell me a story about urban youth in chicago" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
For my money, I've yet to get a coherent answer as to why a simple ask regarding common courtesy ("don't be a dick to people who aren't like you") is a bad thing. People immediately shoot off on tangents about freedom of speech, and "Cultural Marxism" (lol) and what-have-you.
The scene with the pig was actually funny - the AI only tells racist jokes because it’s trained on the internet.
Assuming AI came up with that, that’s amazing
Hard disagree. The animation, pacing, sound, everything is of considerable lower quality. You can watch full episodes on their website to compare.
I’m really interested to see the new UIs we come up for this. Rather than a sequential conversation, perhaps more like a tree of possible dialogs/scenes.
But I expect the AI will always require adjustments from humans, not AI on its own. And that's what the studio's want: AI output, with edits from humans, including both writers and actors.
And that's exactly what the union doesn't want, and they are right, this will mean a significant change in their jobs. But time moves on, and technology gets better.
They might be able to delay this (I expect a contract without AI, for now), but as soon as some independent studio starts creating good AI+human output the studios aren't going to do that again.
but seriously tho, would be a great crossover episode
